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SAMSUN (anc. Antisus)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 120 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAMSUN (anc. Antisus) , the See also:chief See also:town of the Janik sanjak of the See also:Trebizond vilayet of See also:Asiatic See also:Turkey, situated on the S. See also:coast of the See also:Black See also:Sea between the deltas of the Kizil and Yeshil Irmaks. Pop. about 15,000, two-thirds See also:Christian. It is connected by metalled roads with See also:Sivas and Kaisarieh, and by sea with See also:Constantinople.' It is a thriving town, and the outlet for the See also:trade of the Sivas vilayet. Steamers See also:lie about x m. from the See also:shore in an open roadstead, and in See also:winter landing is some-times impossible. Its See also:district is one of the See also:principal See also:sources of See also:Turkish See also:tobacco, a whole variety of which is known as" Samsun." Samsun exports cereals, tobacco and See also:wool. Both exports and imports are about stationary, the See also:Angora.railway having neutralized any tendency to rise. Amisus, which stood on a promontory about 1 z m. N.W. of Samsun, was, next to See also:Sinope, the most flourishing of the See also:Greek settlements on the Euxine, and under the See also:kings of See also:Pontus it was a See also:rich trading town. By the 1st See also:century A.D. it had displaced Sinope as the N. See also:Port of the See also:great trade route from Central See also:Asia, and later it was one of the chief towns of the Comneni of Trebizond. There are still a few remains of the Greek See also:settlement.

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